Am. Society of Civil Engineers
Applied GPS for engineers and project managers.
This book is for civil engineers, researchers, students, and project managers. It explains the basics of global positioning technology (GPS) within the context of engineering and project management and guides engineers and project managers in selecting and implementing a GPS system into projects or research. Part 1 treats basics of GPS, such as positioning and measurement principles and improving accuracy, and reviews features of low-cost systems and high-precision systems. Part 2 presents applications in eight different areas, such as structural health monitoring, robotics and machine control, maritime operations, geohazards monitoring, miniaturized GPS systems, and wireless communications. About 20 pages of appendices give facts on GPS receiver classification, calculations, and equations. A glossary of terms is also included. The book is illustrated with b&w photos. Ogaja teaches geomatics engineering at California State University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Blast protection of buildings.
This brand new standard synthesizes experiences of committee members and others to present current practice in analyzing and designing structures for blast resistance. It covers general considerations, design considerations, performance criteria, blast loads, fragmentation, structural systems, protection of spaces, exterior envelope, materials detailing, and performance qualification. The first half of the volume sets out the standards, and the second half comments on them. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Groundwater quantity and quality management.
This guide provides the groundwater community an overview of groundwater quantity and quality management, with a focus on the interrelationship between quantity and quality. In particular, it discusses modeling groundwater flow and solute transport for the purpose of forecasting, including the physical and chemical characterization needed to establish model parameters and support model calibration; developing groundwater resources with consideration given to interaction between groundwater and surface water and saltwater intrusion; and remediating groundwater resources by physical, chemical, and biological means. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Public-private partnerships; case studies on infrastructure development.
A veteran consultant in construction contracts and claim settlements, Levy presents several case studies in which private concerns and public agencies have collaborated to repair, maintain, and build transportation infrastructure in the US. They are the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road, the Texas Strategic Plan, and Florida's endeavors. Other topics include tools for implementing partnerships, developers and financers, the role of the US government, neighbors to the south and north, and looking down the road. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Selected coastal engineering papers of Robert L. Wiegel; civil engineering classics.
Over six decades of writing and teaching, Wiegel has produce two textbooks, over 50 technical reports, and over 100 papers and articles. Neither the textbooks nor the reports are included here, but 54 papers, carefully selected by Wiegel and the editorial committee as his best and most influential in civil engineering, are reproduced from his own typescripts or from journal pages. The topics include amphibian tractors in the surf, the surface discharge of a horizontal warm-water jet, wind-generated wave diffraction by a breakwater gap, coastal engineering trends and research needs, and beach profile surveys along the US Pacific coast 1945-47. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Urban aerodynamics; wind engineering for urban planners and designers.
The booklet identifies professional contributions that wind engineers can make to urban planning and design in collaboration with city governments, urban planners, and designers. It sets out tools and quantitative techniques used by wind engineers in urban aerodynamics, and explains how these are preferable to an intuitive approach. Among the topics are historic considerations of wind in urban planning, pedestrian level winds, human thermal comfort in naturally ventilated spaces, dispersional modeling in boundary layer wind tunnels, urban wind power, quantifying wind effects, and computational fluid dynamics. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Wind loads for petrochemical and other industrial facilities.
The committee has synthesized current practice, internal company standards, published documents, and the work of related organizations to produce a set of state-of-the-art guidelines for determining wind induced forces on structures found in the petrochemical and other industrial facilities. It should interest engineers familiar with the design of such structures and the load they are designed to withstand. Among the structures they consider are pipe support structures such as racks and bridges, vessels, cooling towers, tanks, and steel stacks. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
